Professor Draheim Wins “Best Article” Award from the Psychonomic Society
Dr. Amanda Draheim, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, was recently honored with the Best Article Award in the Psychonomic Bulletin & Review journal. This award honors individuals for the best paper published in each Psychonomic Society journal in the last year.
Dr. Amanda Draheim, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, was recently honored with the Best Article Award in the Psychonomic Bulletin & Review journal. This award honors individuals for the best paper published in each Psychonomic Society journal in the last year.
The article, “The Role of Attention Control in Complex Real-World Tasks,” co-authored by Christopher Draheim, Richard Pak, Amanda Draheim, and Randall Engle, discusses how limited methodological approaches to measuring attention control have potentially caused researchers to underestimate the predictive value of this construct. Attention control refers to the ability to engage in goal directed behavior by attending to relevant information and blocking irrelevant information. Dr. Draheim’s primary contribution to the review (pages 1162 - 1170) considers research in support for the predictive role of attention control in understanding risk and resilience to psychological distress, including anxiety disorders, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, racial trauma and minority stress, externalizing disorders (conduct and antisocial disorders, substance use disorders), thought disorders, and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Congratulations to Dr. Draheim and co-authors on this outstanding accomplishment!